Cliff's memories of Easter are a great read.
A study showing that a significant number of people exhibit violence towards their computer when it malfunctions, and another significant number of people attempt to sweet-talk it.
Shapr posted a link to the
extremeperl mailing list. I found
this post on the value of learning languages to be insightful.
Along a similar line, there's an
intriguing post on The Sequence from a Perl hacker looking at the Haskell community. I think he's right.
These Perl people are really impressing me lately. My respect for the Perl commnuity has really shot upwards lately. And I am similarly disappointed in many of the directions Python is taking these days. Nice time to be using Haskell :-)
Usually when I learn a new programming language, I'll hang out on its mailing lists and IRC channels, learning from the answers given to other people's questions, and asking my own. After a month or two, I usually feel fairly good with my abilities; that I could answer most of the questions, and understand most of the questions.
Well, I've been using Haskell for about 6 months now. I really like Haskell, and it's a great language to use, and it's already my preferred language.
But here's what's unique about Haskell. The more I use it, and the more I participate with the Haskell community, the more I realize just how much there is that I could learn. And it seems that I'm not alone with that feeling.
I wonder why Haskell is unique this way.
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